As we see it, Sen. Ben Sasse's Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act presented Democrat lawmakers with a simple, moral choice: Protect the life of an infant born alive or guarantee a dead baby to any woman seeking an abortion. Senate Democrats opted to vote for the dead baby guarantee.

We applaud Senator McConnell and over forty other Republicans for co-sponsoring S.130 the “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act”, but whether the bill ever gets a vote depends entirely upon which Mitch McConnell shows up – the somnolent one who caves to every Schumer threat of a filibuster or the aggressive one who is muscling through S.1 to limit the President’s options in Syria and Afghanistan.